ABSTRACT
The chapters by David Correia, Wendy Wolford, and Kevin St. Martin pose
a challenge to ‘‘capitalocentric’’ narratives about economic and cultural
processes, in which market relations inevitably triumph (see St. Martin’s
chapter). Focusing on sites as diverse as New Mexico, Brazil, and New
England, the researchers refuse the linearity and teleology of capitalocentr-
ism by demonstrating the ways in which differing socio-economic relations
overlap in time and space as a result of continuity in livelihood practices,
opposition movements, and surprising convergences. Despite the best intentions of powerful elites to create the discursive and legislative condi-
tions necessary to privatize natural resources and enroll individuals into the
market economy as wage laborers, people resist, policies go awry, and con-
tradictions emerge.
